AN APPEAL TO THE CYMRY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 3

AN APPEAL TO THE CYMRY.

"I helpu'r Hen Wlad yu ci blaen; •Sir, —Will you kindly allow me' toappeal to the Welsh people of-, the 'district through'-your -paper? It . has' been do-' cided to commemorate Kins Edward,Vll: in Wales'by a'national effort'ttf stamp out tuberculosis in the Er'inbipalify.- ? Tho cdfdialjWppftiyal from alUelasses anil single subscriptions : as' high- as <£50,000 have been received. A communication is to hand from the chairman' of the ■ national cxccntive-;David . Davies, Esq.. M.P., Llandinam, North Wales—asking me to- solicit subscriptions from the Welshnjtft resident , in .tho lower;half of this N<jrth-^lsland. s * KChe -flnancial' position is as-followswiMinimunuamount-re-quired, i£3oft,ooo;; amount ' proniisc-d, .11160,000; amount'.yilr required, .£140,000. It has i been acreed,"that;, tho. .campaign shall have : three -main "divisions:—(l) An educational .propaganda;"© tho provision of model dispensaries; (3) tho'erection;of sanatoria; The educational side_ will embrace:—(a) Travelling tuberculosis exhibitions; (b) popular- lectures-with .lantern elides; £c) an jafoimation fofc tlw-

press and public; (d) the distribution of literature. As to the need:—Wales is th«, blackest spot oil,the tuberculosis map of England and Wales. Of the 15 .counties. . 'suffering the highest' mortality' from;. phthisis, no fewer than seven are Welsh. In Carnarvon the death-rate from phthisis : is.'4o per cent, higher than in England and Wales as a whole- Cardigan-hire— the county of farms and fields—lus a s death-rate - from the same cause nearly 5 double the averago of England and Wales. ' : Will you help to reraove this stigma?',-;-] I shall be glad to receive any contribu- ■ ) tions ,and. to acknowledge them through j the press—l am, etc., -' j J ; T." A. \yiLLIAXIS, j . Baptist Minister, Petone. j [By an unfortunate oversight this letter ~ i has been delayed in publication.!